China News Service, February 7 (Xinhua) The China Meteorological Administration held a press conference on the 7th. At the meeting, Zhang Hengde, deputy director of the National Meteorological Center, introduced the weather trend forecast during the Spring Festival holiday.
Zhang Hengde pointed out that it is expected that during the Spring Festival holiday (February 10-17), the temperature will first rise and then fall in most parts of the country, with the average temperature being higher than the same period in normal years; there will be no disastrous weather such as widespread rain, snow, freezing, persistent fog, haze, etc. ; In the early part of the holiday (New Year's Eve to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year), the cold air force affecting our country is weak, with mostly sunny to cloudy weather in most areas, and the temperature generally shows an upward trend; in the later period (the fifth to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year), the cold air force strengthens, Our country will experience strong winds, cooling, rain and snow. The specific forecast is as follows:
In the early days of the holiday, the weather was fine in most parts of the country, and the temperature rose significantly. In the early days of the holiday, the temperature in the central and eastern regions has recovered significantly, with the temperature increasing by 4 to 10 degrees Celsius. Affected by the weak cold air, there will be strong winds in the northern region. From the 9th to the 11th (New Year's Eve to the second day of the Lunar New Year), Inner Mongolia, western and northern parts of North China will have strong winds of magnitude 4 to 6 and gusts of magnitude 7. Among them, from the 9th to the 10th, Inner Mongolia will There are sand and dust weather in parts of the west, Ningxia, northern Gansu, and northern Shaanxi; there are strong winds of magnitude 5 to 7 and gusts of magnitude 8 in the eastern Yellow Sea, the northeastern part of the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.
Stronger cold air will affect the central and eastern regions of my country during the latter part of the holiday. From the 14th to the 17th (from the fifth to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year), affected by the strong cold air, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the north will experience northerly winds of magnitude 4 to 6 from north to south, with gusts of magnitude 7 to 9, and the temperature will drop by 4 to 8℃, with a cooling range of 10-12℃ in some areas such as Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, with local temperatures above 14℃; light to moderate rain and local heavy rain in Huanghuai, Jianghuai, Jianghan, Jiangnan, South China, Sichuan Basin and Guizhou ; There will be light snow or sleet in the central and eastern parts of Inner Mongolia, North China, and Northeast China, and there will be moderate to heavy snow in the eastern part of Northeast China.
There are intermittent fog or haze in places such as the Huanghuai River in North China and the coastal areas of South China. From the 9th to the 10th (New Year's Eve to the first day of the Lunar New Year) and from the 12th to the 14th (the third to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year), there were light to moderate haze in some areas of North China, Huanghuai, Jianghuai, Northeast and other places, and localized severe haze. From the night of the 13th to the morning of the 14th (the fourth to fifth day of the Lunar New Year), there was heavy fog in parts of southern Hebei, western and northern Shandong, northern and southwestern Henan, and localized thick fog. In addition, from the 14th to the 16th (from the fifth to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year), there will be light fog along the southeastern and South China coasts, the Qiongzhou Strait, and the northern waters of the Beibu Gulf, and heavy fog may occur from night to morning.